Cleopatra the Alchemist (3rd Century)

Cleopatra the Alchemist, who likely lived during the 3rd century, was a Macedonian Egyptian alchemist, author, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists that could produce the Philosopher's stone (with Maria the Jewess, Medera, and Taphnutia). She is considered to be the inventor of the Alembic, an early tool for analytic chemistry.

She was active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or the 4th century. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess and Comarius. These alchemists used complex apparatus for distillation and sublimation. source: Wikipedia

Known for
Inventing the alembic, a tool for analytic chemistry

Cleopatra is most noted for the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra (Greek: Χρυσοποιία Κλεοπάτρας), a single sheet document which contains only symbols, drawings and captions (including ouroboros, first image below). It is first found on a single leaf in a tenth-to-eleventh century manuscript



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